Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis